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...being a choreographer, methodically building a first-rate company and a large, acclaimed body of work. But her reputation, at least outside serious dance circles, has lacked weight. She handles certain material, such as social dancing, pop songs and pop-up emotions, better than anyone else, in an idiom that seems delightfully impromptu and improper. The loose-jointed, off-balance look is unmistakable, whether a gleeful Sara Rudner is jigging through Eight Jelly Rolls or a bemused Mikhail Baryshnikov is buckling under the weight of his hat in Push Comes to Shove. A lot of the action takes place right...
...first proper look at one of the fundamental modernist painters. There have not been many unalloyed classicists in 20th century art, and although Gris' work has its avant-garde credentials, it can now be seen as he probably wanted it to be: as the extension, into a modern idiom (for cubism was, to him, a kind of ultimate language) of the tradition of calm, cerebrative painting that flowed from Chardin through Seurat, and whose essential subject was still life...
...well lit, the ordinary, and that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly understood. So it is with this show of Bartlett's, whose unlikely motif is a dull little French garden, and whose prevailing mood is an exacerbated sense of attentiveness, suspense and imbalance...
...worried about money, you don't think about money any more." Shapey continues to compose in his unprepossessing apartment in Chicago's Hyde Park, still does not own a car, and busies himself, as he did before receiving the award, with creating difficult music in a modern idiom that some critics have hailed as "expressive" and "romantic" despite its atonal complexity. Commercial publishers have issued only a handful of his compositions...
...Kenzo Tange, now 69, who broke the ice in the 1950s and became the first Japanese architect to win a wide institutional clientele by combining a Corbusian idiom with traditional Japanese quotations, done in reinforced concrete. Since then a generation of architects-some of them Tange's former students at Tokyo University-has proved less interested in formal revivalism than in a more conceptual relationship to their heritage. Outstanding among these (but still, one among several) is Arata Isozaki, 52, whose as yet unbuilt design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles may turn...